afcarl / cartopy

Cartopy - a cartographic python library with matplotlib support

Cartopy is a Python package designed to make drawing maps for data analysis and visualisation easy.

Table of contents

• Overview
• Get in touch
• License and copyright

Overview

Cartopy is a Python package designed to make drawing maps for data analysis and visualisation easy.

It features:

• object oriented projection definitions
• point, line, polygon and image transformations between projections
• integration to expose advanced mapping in Matplotlib with a simple and intuitive interface
• powerful vector data handling by integrating shapefile reading with Shapely capabilities

Documentation can be found at http://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/docs/latest/.

Get in touch

• Ask usage questions on StackOverflow.
• For less well defined questions, ideas, general discussion or announcements of related projects use the Google Group.
• Report bugs, suggest features or view the source code on GitHub.

License and copyright

Cartopy is licensed under GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPLv3).

Development occurs on GitHub at https://github.com/SciTools/cartopy, with a contributor's license agreement (CLA) that can be found at http://scitools.org.uk/governance.html.

(C) British Crown Copyright, Met Office